Posted on 09/26/2010 5:12:31 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Reps. Steny Hoyer, D-Md.; John Boehner, R-Ohio; and Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Education Secretary Arne Duncan; Michelle Rhee, schools chancellor for the District of Columbia; Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation of Teachers; Robert Bobb, emergency financial manager, Detroit public schools.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Marco Rubio, Republican nominee for Senate in Florida; Ken Buck, Republican nominee for Senate in Colorado; Sal Russo, chief strategist, Tea Party Express.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Presidential adviser David Axelrod; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Queen Rania of Jordan.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut; Reps. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash.
Just wanted to thank you for this Sunday thread. I always read it and appreciate all those who can watch and report on the shows.
When GWB was president, the half-hourly “newscast” on talk radio stations was led by the CBS or ABC White House correspondent reading what President (Mr) Bush had said that day or the previous day; followed by an audio clip of a democrat challenging what the president had said or done. A clip of President Bush’s actual voice was rare. -— I made a study of this, after having heard Clinton’s voice every half hour for years.
Now when my radio is on, at the top of the hour or on the half hour, I have to listen to an audioclip of President (never Mr.) Obama saying one lie or another. No rebuttal by a republican ever follows.
When Bush was president, newspapers used the word “but” regularly in of their headlines.
Hard to find that kind of opposition “journalism” today. Because “journalists” have a certain ideology and they “cain’t he’p theyselves” (to quote my mother’s much beloved housekeeper.)
I do think it is important to get the discussion back to the alternative between a Bearded Marxist and a normal person who wants to not bankrupt the country. And, it's real important to not let the media define the candidate.
Maybe a spoof commercial; have the candidate on stage, pour a bucket of water on her, she doesn't melt, and then her comment is, "Let's see Nancy Pelosi siurvive that! Now, can we get back to the issues that grownups want to discuss?"
Agreed. I think this will come to a head in a year and a half or so at the Republican Convention. If the Republican Party is truly run from the ground up, the people at the various precinct caucuses will have a chance to prove we are in charge and not the power elite.
Oh yes Rush Limbaugh has been the strongest voice sounding this tocsin. Hopefully it will trickle down to some of the other center-right talking heads. Most have been pretty good but some of them have fallen into the same elitest trap as much of the GOP Leadership
Will Wallace ask John Boehner if he has a mistress on the side ??
This is Boehner’s big chance to dismiss the charges before the NYT makes headlines !!
“As I understand it Christine has hired some expert politcal operatives”
Hoosiermama posted the following (there’s more discussion on that thread about the operatives):
Jack St. Martin, a former Republican National Committee staffer who also worked for Ralph Reed’s Christian Coalition, has been hired as O’Donnell’s field coordinator. Fred Davis of Strategic Perceptions Inc., a California ad firm that has worked with several GOP candidates, has been hired as O’Donnell’s media coordinator.
Meanwhile, Katy French, chief speechwriter for RNC chairman Michael Steele, is on loan to help with O’Donnell’s campaign communications.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/congress/odonnell-to-attend-gop-dinner-in-bid-to-unite-103746624.html#ixzz10b9D1T00
15 posted on Saturday, September 25, 2010 7:31:42 PM by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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FNS
Wallace: 45 page Pledge.
[The online version was 21 pages earlier in the week.]
Yeah, ya got that right, fortunately, the lamestream press is going down.
Unfortunately, so is the rest of the private sector.
FNS
Boehner: “It will not be business as usual. ... It will not be business as usual. ...It will not be business as usual.”
[Trust me, would I lie to you?]
I wrote on this thread oncit the story of how my husband, NOT a Catholic, attended a party for a departing co-choir member who was leaving to become a priest.
So husband, heh, now knows all the players in this saga. Because when push comes to shove, Sussex County is a great berg and everyone is three degrees removed from everyone else. I do love it here and don’t forget, Sussex county brought Christine O’Donnell to the world.
Monday before last, husband bolts inside door...”Pat,” he says in loud, very serious whisper. “There’s an arrest warrant out on Todd Benner.”
I’ll use his name because a local yokel radio station, and yes I know all the players in THAT part of the story, done eviscerated the man for two straight days, every hour on the hour.
Again, husband met Todd, the choir director of my church, a choir in which I sing, at that recent party. Husband also met Father Jim...too a player in this story.
My hand flies to mouth. Goodness, Todd is the quietest, sweetest fellow on the planet. Why would a warrant be out on him? “I don’t know,” husband responds, but it’s all over WGMD.”
Of course I turn on WGMD, a local yokel talk radio station, very conservative, managed by one Dan Gaffney, the same guy who conducted that awful offensive interview of Christine O’Donnell, the same guy who later came on the likes of Chris Matthews to discuss his famed interview. The same guy who went on Nancy Grace to discuss the local pervert pediatrician being prosecuted by Beau Biden.
The same guy who forced me to change my email addy but I’ve got EVERY EMAIL SAVED...yes I do....cause this guy is weird....WEIRD.
Everyone in Sussex County is three degrees removed from everybody else and so it goes.
Every hour on the hour, for two straight days, the beginning of every newscast on WGMD would begin...”Police are looking for Todd Benner, Choir Director of St. Jude the Apostle church in Lewes. State police went to the church on Sunday before teh 8:30 mass and Benner had already “escaped” “....yes, once they used the word ESCAPED.
“Father James Hrhea had no comment when contacted by WGMD and we are waiting for a response by the Wilmington Diocese.”
Of course I must investigate, requiring phone calls and such as you might imagine.
Get this. Turns out Todd has two outstanding bench warrants from 2006...for bounced checks and, I’m not making this up...”unleashed dog.”
Two full days of this and anybody reading this thinks that this station would have been broadcasting MY name every hour for two straight days, I gotta bridge to sell you, cheap.
Then I am not the Music Director at a Catholic church, am I?
I’m quite sure that Mr. Gaffney, who I know way too well and wish I didn’t, was hoping that Todd’s crime was some kind of molestation of little boys and I’m also sure that this very ambitious fellow who conducted a blistering and horrific interview with Christine O’Donnell for no reason other than to get his face in the national media sun, was hoping to get the fame that so tantalyzes him.
Meanwhile, our church has been turned upside down as yon reader might imagine. We’ll survive.
Todd was not at the church that 8:30 in the am on a Sunday morning, not because he escaped, but because he..well he just wasn’t there. Father Jim has not fired Todd but he is on paid administrative leave pending resolution of this case. Todd did go and turn himself in and he did have two bad checks out there...again from 2006, and at one time he did, under penalty of death, leave his dog unleashed.
A man’s job almost lost, maybe will be lost though Father Jim’s not buckling to pressure. The Wilmington Diocese? Who knows. I suspect they think it’s what it is...a big hoo-ha.
In fact, it was a PARISHIONER, a parishioner with a beef against Father Jim, who knew about these outstanding bench warrants, who tipped the state police off that Todd was scheduled to play the organ at the 8:30 am mass.
Small potatoes, folks. But a Perfect Storm, with Sussex County all in the national news because of the O’Donnell thing, with Dan Gaffney...guy looks just like Dagwood Bumstead with about a hundred kids....and I GOT EVERY EMAIL SAVED and my husband knows the story of me and Dan Gaffney. So this Manager of WGMD wants to be catapaulted to big time and he has no qualms about helping that national fame along, to include practically ruining a poor fellow’s life and unfairly interviewing a candidate beloved by WEMD’s viewership.
The church hired a substitute choir director and we sang proudly and tall at yesterday’s 4:30 mass. Best way we can help Todd get through this is to soldier on until he can come back.
Meanwhile, Dan Gaffney still has his job...the pervert. Remember, I STILL have every stalking email. Don’t forget that.
Yes a lot depends on who comes out on top in the local and state parties. In too many places too many Conservative have sat around letting someone else run the party for them.
“The US political Old Guard still refuse to open their eyes and see what is going on”
Good post, Johnnie and I agree with you. Unfortunately, some of the ‘Old Guard’ now decide they and the ‘middle of the roaders’ need to be heard more and throw a wrench in the movement (if the LA Times can be believed):
LA Times: Tired of ‘tea party’ sniping, moderates organize
Los Angeles Times ^ | September 25, 2010 | By James Oliphant
Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2010 6:04:18 AM by Oldeconomybuyer
Washington — Galvanized by the lightning-in-a-bottle success of conservative “tea party” candidates, moderate Republicans and others in the political center are looking for ways to push back against what they see as an advancing tide of ideological extremism.
“Middle America is being ignored by Washington and the media. Centrists are desperate for a voice today; they feel entirely unrepresented,” said Mark McKinnon, a political strategist and former advisor to President George W. Bush.
“The tea party has tapped into voter frustration and anger,” he said, “but does not represent millions of Americans in the vast middle.”
The moves reflect political divisions that have only grown deeper as tea-party-backed insurgents have toppled candidates supported by the GOP establishment around the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
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Boehner (on taking the majority) :
There are a hundred races that are “in play” this year, usually there are about twenty.
All but two of those are incumbent democrat seats.
No but you will endlessly bitch no matter what the GOP does.
Sure the Pledge is not perfect but nothing in life ever is.
This habitual pouting for perfection from the always bitching caucus of Feeper purists is really childish.
This document, imperfect as it is, is only 100% better then anything we have gotten out of DC since Reagan was President.
And yes, that includes the 1994 Contract.
For example, this document, as imperfect as it is, is a whole lot more specific on what the GOP plans to do to reign in spending then the Contract was.
Perhaps you might explain to us, why you have such an ax to grind with the GOP that you can never find anything to do but bitch about them?
Chris Wallace presents the DNC programs, AND CUTS OFF
statements from John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Wallace appears to be in bed with the DNC and will not
let him say how the GOP will “not be business as usual”.
Instead, the biased Wallace interrupts, then
interposes the DNC lines more than twice.
Wallace even lectures directly from the DNC script —
pushing for compromise while attacking Pres. Bush
even though the DNC controlled Congress.
FOX appears to be submissive to the DNC
with Wallace as Obama’s and the DNC’s trained poodle.
The question is whether or not the newly elected republicans can withstand the constant harping and bashing from the left wing media.
The arrive with good intentions then are too timid to stick to their guns.
Just look at how easily Scott Brown was co-opted.
We need to keep in touch with our newly elected repubs and remind them that we are paying CLOSE attention.
John Boehner has either been hiding in a room with no windows or he is wearing serious white make-up. Wow, is he pale today.
[The online version was 21 pages earlier in the week.]
It depends on the font of the printout.
Just one more talking point used to slam republicans.
I love that sentence.
You're right, of course. That pledge is just fine...remember, at some point we'll be able to hold feet to fire. For that reason alone you gotta see it as a positive thing.
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